The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 · Ch. III — GENERAL EXCEPTIONS
Section 20 — Act of a child under seven years of age
Nothing is an offence which is done by a child under seven years of age.
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The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 · Ch. III — GENERAL EXCEPTIONS
Nothing is an offence which is done by a child under seven years of age.
IPC Section 82 → BNS Section 20 per the official NCRB Sankalan table.
This is the text of IPC Section 82, not of the section above. Read both before relying on either.
Nothing is an offence which is done by a child under seven years of age.
Source & version
Official text: Gazette of India via MHA (official) ↗
Official Gazette text: The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023), English PDF as hosted by Ministry of Home Affairs (mha.gov.in, file 250883_english_01042024.pdf; canonical mirror indiacode.nic.in bitstream a202345.pdf). Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -layout and @nexlex/ingest gazette-pdf parser on 2026-07-14. Automated parse; structural validation + spot verification of sections 1, 63, 103, 302, 358; full clause-level proofread pending.
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